Figure Skating Junior Grand Prix 6th Competition, Lee Jae-geun placed 1st in the short program and Jang Ha-rin placed 3rd.

Figure skating men's singles hopeful Lee Jae-geun (Korea University) performed cleanly in the short program of the 6th competition of the 2026-2027 International Skating Union (ISU) Junior Grand Prix, scoring 85.13 points, including 48.41 technical points (TES) and 36.72 artistic points (PCS), beating Japan's Taika Nishino (84.29 points) by 0.84 points. I beat him by car and took first place.

Lee Jae-geun's short program score on this day was a new record, 1.09 points higher than his previous ISU official highest score (83.20 points) achieved at the 2nd Junior Grand Prix competition (silver medal) last August.

Lee Jae-geun performed a 'no penalty performance', earning performance points (GEO) in all seven tasks of the short program.

Lee Jae-geun, who won 1.77 GOE points in the first jumping task, triple lutz (5.90 points), received 1.71 points in the subsequent triple axel (8.00 points), and also handled the flying camel spin at level 4, the highest difficulty.

Jae-Geun Lee completed all the jumping tasks, receiving a GOE of 1.05 points in the triple loop-triple toe loop combination jump (10.01 points) attempted in the extra point section.

Lee Jae-geun, who also received a level 4 for the change foot combination jump, finished his performance by receiving a level 4 for both the step sequence and change foot sit spin.

Harin Jang (Dojang Middle School), who participated in the women's single short program held earlier, scored 64.77 points, including 38.14 technical scores (TES) and 26.63 artistic scores (PCS), ranking third after Liu Yuxian (China, 70.10 points) and Hana Bass (Australia, 67.75 points).

Harin Jang's short program score is a new record, raising her previous ISU official highest score (56.01 points) by 8.76 points.

Harin Jang, who received a GOE of 0.84 points in the first jumping task, the triple toe loop-triple toe loop combination jump (8.40 points), received a GOE of 0.42 points in the double axel (3.30 points).

Harin Jang cleanly landed the triple lutz (6.69 points) in the extra point section following the flying camel spin (level 3), earning a GOE of 1.43 points.

Harin Jang finished her performance with a step sequence (level 3) followed by a change foot combination jump (level 4) and a layback spin (level 4).